The emoji could be available by next year. Ford Motor Company announced Wednesday that it submitted a proposal for a new pickup truck emoji in May of last year, which is now on a short list being ...

There are currently no emoji for people who don't identify as male or female — but that could change very soon. Unicode's draft emoji list for new emoji releases contains three gender inclusive emoji, ...

There are emoji for pears, koalas, and jack-o’-lanterns; for a pine tree, a pizza slice, and a dragon’s head on a plate. But there are no emoji for black people. That seems likely to change soon: ...

This week, before the holidays come and your issues get way too big for small emoji, Zoe Mendelson plays shrink. So, before the holidays arrive and your issues grow beyond the reach of small ...

Jovan Hill tweeted "Gays are cancelled". Ironically, Twitter then cancelled him. Twitter accidentally allowed the creation of a "No Homo" emoji this week — and then banned a prominent gay Twitter user ...

Florie Hutchinson's crusade against emoji fashion started last year, on the heels of the presidential election and the 2017 Women's March. She'd been thinking about feminism, her three young daughters ...

There's pretty much an emoji for every situation. Heck, there are even a bunch that don't seem ideal for any situation (I'm looking at you, Money-Mouth). But among the dozens of official Unicode ...

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The high and low collided at the world’s first emoji convention in San Francisco on Saturday, and the result was . Linguists, emoji designers from tech powerhouses like Google and officials from the ...

A number of iOS app developers have been mystified by a new wave of app rejections related to their use of Apple’s emojis. They’ve suspected that a new App Store crackdown is underway. However, the ...

Mosquitoes are more than a spoiler of backyard barbecues. They threaten more than half the world’s population with their disease-spreading bites. In fact, mosquitoes are deadlier — by far — than ...